About the Authors

This site is devoted to our new books, Tackling Football: A Woman’s Guide to Understanding the College Game and Tackling Football: Everyone’s Guide to Understanding the College Game by Sandra L. Caron and J. Michael Hodgson.

J. Michael Hodgson & Sandra L. Caron

Sandra L. Caron is a Professor of Family Relations and Human Sexuality at the University of Maine. She has been both professionally and personally involved in college athletics. She is a graduate of the University of Maine and Syracuse University. She has served as a member of the University of Maine Athletic Advisory Board for more than a decade, coordinator of the Faculty Liaison Program for the Athletic Department, and director of Athletes for Sexual Responsibility, a nationally recognized peer education program that trains student-athletes to educate others on sexuality issues. Personally, she has been an avid, but average, college football fan for more than three decades.

J. Michael Hodgson has more than 30 years of experience with college football, including his role as a player and a football coach for several colleges. He played football for the University of Maine where he was a three-year starter at tight end and also handled place kicking duties. He began his coaching career there, working with tight ends, the offensive line, and running backs before moving to Princeton University as wide receivers coach and the passing game coordinator. He went on to become head coach for Maine Maritime Academy. He was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks/wide receivers coach at Central Connecticut State University, and then served as quarterbacks and receivers coach at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania. Most recently, he was offensive coordinator and running backs/tight ends coach for Dartmouth College. He is currently the Assistant Director for Development in the University of Maine Department of Athletics.

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"Tackling Football is outstanding and was VERY well received in our home – my wife Mary loved it!"
-Kirk Ferentz, Head Football Coach
University of Iowa

"A much needed and long overdue look at college football for those who think they know, but don't. An understandable guide to not only what goes into the game, but gameday itself. It will undoubtedly educate those who have been afraid to ask. I'd like my wife to purchase this first copy!"
-Jack W. Cosgrove, Legendary former Head Football Coach
University of Maine

"The book was a tremendous addition to our Women's Clinic at Princeton this spring. Many of the participants are friends that I saw often this summer at our children's events and they continue to comment how helpful it has been. Sandra Caron and Mike Hodgson have done an exceptional job taking a game that can be considered complicated and breaking it down in a way that is easy to follow."
- Bob Surace, Head Football Coach
Princeton University